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"In the two years since Edison schools have switched from serving breakfast before classes begin to after the bell rings, more eligible students are being served."

"A report finds the number of low-income children who eat breakfast at New Jersey schools has jumped by 21 percent from October 2010 to March 2012."

"Schools in New Jersey are feeding breakfasts to more low-income students, but as many as 320,000 who are eligible are still not being served."

"The labor is going to be long and difficult, but this baby is on its way in most affluent countries. Japan and Germany, two countries long considered laggards in the child care area, are now increasing their spending. In the United States, President Obama is keeping the issue atop his domestic agenda, where it is gaining traction despite slim chances of Congressional approval. Many states and several big cities have developed innovative and successful pre-K programs."

"Need evidence that the federal budget cuts enacted under the so-called sequester are taking a toll on people in North Jersey? Look no further than Head Start, the widely acclaimed program that provides early childhood education and other services to low-income children and their families."

"New SAT details released Thursday had some Georgia school districts bragging about eager students and hardworking teachers, while others were left to explain how disadvantages such as poverty dragged down their scores."

"When federal funding cuts took place this year, thousands of low-income children and their introduction to education through Early Head Start and Head Start programs were affected nationwide."

"A new book called Reign of Error' whose author, Diane Ravitch, is in the Golden State for a couple of days tries to convince us that fine schools are good enough for our children. Simply put, fine schools will not prepare our children for life and careers in this global information age."

"Anyone involved in education knows the main cause for all of our educational shortfalls is and always will be poverty. Nothing short of a miracle will ever trump poverty's death grip on educational failure."

"The group that administers the SAT has begun a nationwide outreach program to try to persuade more low-income high school seniors who scored high on standardized tests to apply to select colleges."

"She referred to the 112 Education Foundation, which for the past five years has raised an average of about $101,000 per year to bolster the district. Among other uses, the money is allocated as grants for teachers with innovative classroom ideas and used to bring in authors for readings. It also helps to support the school district's growing number of low-income students, which this year has risen to almost a quarter of the student population."

"School report cards released last month showed a near straight-line correlation between poverty and state test scores, according to data released Monday by several Ohio education groups."